The following selection of artwork from private collections as well as from the inventory of the Jonesport Wood Company, Inc. is being offered for sale within the Davistown Museum Gallery complex for the purpose of raising money for the general operating expenses of the Davistown Museum, the Community Education outreach programs of the Center for the Study of Early Tools, and the exhibtions "7 Maine Artists" and "The Art of the Edge Tool." 30% of the proceeds from the sale of fine art in this section of the Davistown Museum - Great Wass Island Salvage Company eStore will benefit the Museum.
Your patronage is greatly appreciated.

Fine Arts on Consignment

Roy W. Mason
Duck Hunt
Watercolor, 21" x 23.5", framed in special UV protective glass
070508lpc3
$2800.00


Signature
Alternate Angle 2
Hilare Germain Edgar Degas (June 19, 1834 - 1917)
Portrait of Mlle. Carpentier {n.d.}
Oil on canvas, 16"w X 20"h
Signed "Degas" on the front lower left hand corner, also signed "Degas" on the back of the frame with the inscription "Mlle. Carpentier"
Painting needs conservation, paint loss to gown, face, hair, and background to left of head.
$ {P.O.R}

The portrait of Mlle. Carpentier has been in a Maine private collection for over two decades.  We believe that this portrait was painted in Paris at approximately the same time as "The Family Bellelli" (1858 - 1867), just prior to his embracing the Impressionistic style.  In the fall of 1872, Degas departed for New Orleans and never again produced portraits with the tightly modeled silhouettes so characteristic of his most important early influence, Ingres.

For more information, photographs and a picture of the signature on the back click here.

For details about an interesting incident pertaining to the attribution of this painting, see our comments on: DEGAS IN DRAG
Milton Avery {1893-1965}
Landscape: Cole Pond, Rawsonville, Vermont, 1945
Oil on canvas, 22"w x 33 1/2"h
signed "Milton Avery 45" in lower left corner
Painting in good condition
$ {P.O.R}

This particular painting hung in a dark second floor hallway of a large Boston area home for over 30 years before it came into the possession of the collector who has loaned it to the museum.  It still retains its original bland frame and a coating of grime from four decades of neglect.  It nearly went to a landfill in the late 1980s -- was this also the fate of many another Milton Avery or Marsden Hartley studies?

(please see our biography page for more photographs and information about Milton Avery).
William Ratcliffe (1870 - 1955) 
London Bridge, ca. 1905
Oil on canvas, 17 1/2" w X 12"h
signed lower right
In great condition -- Photos: 1 2 3 4
$ {P.O.R}

William Ratcliffe was a student of Walter Sickert and one of the first English Impressionists, if one excepts T. M. W. Turner.  As one of the first impressionist paintings made in England, this is a most interesting little fragment of English art history.
William Glackens (1870 - 1938)
Nude, {n.d.} 
pastel, 18 1/2"w x 11 1/2"h, 
signed (upper left corner), 
Good condition, reframed by the Jameson Gallery, Portland, Maine.
$ {P.O.R}
 

Absolutely gorgeous, this pastel will be on loan for display at the Museum Gallery in Liberty. 

See our biography page for more information on Glackens.
Unknown {In the style of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)}
The Swimming Hole, ca. 1890
Oil on board, 9 1/2"w X 13 1/2"h
unsigned, 
Painting in good condition
$ {P.O.R}
 
 

This is a great little painting; is it a study by Eakins or by his students, or by another hand?  We have yet to bring this painting down to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to get their opinion.  The painting has been on display in the main hall of the museum since we opened; please visit the museum and give us some feedback if you have knowledge of the work of Tom Eakins and his students.